2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

Care workers have exposed fundamental contradictions of our society: while the need for care is universal, care work—both paid and unpaid—has been widely devalued. While many people struggle to afford the care they need, many care workers struggle for dignified pay and working conditions. Corporations and financial actors increasingly reap profits from the urgent need for healthcare, childcare, and care for people with disabilities and older adults—and yet care workers often endure low pay and difficult, degrading working conditions. To win a future of care work that actually works for our communities who are providing and receiving care, we know that we must forge connections across the different sectors and positions of care work and build collective visions and strategies.

The Worker Institute will host the 2024 Future of Care Work Convening with the theme Forging Connections Across Care, bringing together advocates, care workers, labor leaders, scholars, and organizers who are committed to placing the needs and voices of care workers themselves at the center of discussions on the future of care work. Building on the energy of the first convening, this year’s speakers, panels, and action sessions will focus on care as a public good, innovative examples of raising standards across care sectors, and building connections across care providers and recipients and paid and unpaid care work.

This is a two-day, in-person event with a live-streaming option for select panels. There will be an opening reception and activities on Friday, May 31 (4-8 pm) and an all-day event with two panels and interactive breakout sessions on Saturday, June 1 (9 am-5:30 pm)

If you have any questions, please contact Zoë West.